Ancestry of
James Ryder Godfrey

(1818–1881)

James Ryder Godfrey

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Godfrey 
  • Mother:
  • Harriet Cooper   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Aug 1818 
  • Birth Location:
  • Baltimore, Maryland 
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  • Death Date:
  • Sep 1881 
  • Death Location:
  • Godfrey, Madison, Illinois 
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• Marriages for James Ryder Godfrey

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  • Spouse:
  • Lodema Curtiss
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Feb 1842
  • Marriage Location:
  • Waverly, Morgan, Illinois

• Sources for James Ryder Godfrey

  • ¹ Alton Evening Telegraph (Alton, Illinois), 02 SEP 1915, p. 1, Obituary for spouse Lodema C. Godfrey.
  • ² Federal Census, IL, Madison County, 1870, Township 6 Range 10, p. 42, Image 42 of 55.
  • ³ Federal Census, IL, Sangamon County, 1860, Subdivision 17, p. 245, Image 167 of 300.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1973, Vol. 127, p. 101.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 149.